git cherry-pick preserves authorship

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git init
Initialized empty Git repository in C:/Users/Johannes/Desktop/tmp/gittemö/.git/

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>notepad README

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git commit -m "asdf" --author "author #1"
fatal: No existing author found with 'author #1'

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git commit -m "asdf" --author "author"
fatal: No existing author found with 'author'

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git commit -m "asdf" readme.txt
error: pathspec 'readme.txt' did not match any file(s) known to git.

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git add README.txt

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git commit -m "asdf" --author "Box Box <[email protected]>"
[master (root-commit) 62eaf66] asdf
 Author: Box Box <[email protected]>
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 README.txt

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git checkout -b otherstuff
Switched to a new branch 'otherstuff'

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>notepad README

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git commit README.txt -m "awesome" --author "Boxmein <[email protected]>"
[otherstuff 9f4978e] awesome
 Author: Boxmein <[email protected]>
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git checkout master
Switched to branch 'master'

C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git cherry-pick 9f4978e
[master 0dfdf36] awesome
 Author: Boxmein <[email protected]>
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
C:\Users\Johannes\Desktop\tmp\gittemö>git log
commit 0dfdf36108f29c58f796b043745aab3eec29e334
Author: Boxmein <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Aug 29 20:19:35 2013 +0300

    awesome

commit 62eaf660113744abf5c0ab3aead4ce78463133c8
Author: Box Box <[email protected]>
Date:   Thu Aug 29 20:18:42 2013 +0300

    asdf